Lisa Padilla on Media and Culture

Rafe Needleman is one of my favorite reporters. I wonder instead of being hated, how he manages to stay relatively well-liked. The other ironic thing is that by writing about how much they are hated, those five people must like him even more. Ah, there's the real magic. I interviewed Rafe a while back about his initiative at CNET called Webware. Some insiders at CNET tell me that it doesn't directly make money (sounded a little paranoid actually), but I would tell CNET that Webware is great for it's own brand awareness, plus it raises visibility for all those companies and software applications.

Google is hiring and here's what the ad on their web site said. "Passionate about these topics? You should work at Google. • algorithms • artificial intelligence • compiler optimization • computer architecture • computer graphics • data compression • data mining • file system design • genetic algorithms • information retrieval • machine learning • natural language processing • operating systems • profiling • robotics • text processing • user interface design • web information retrieval • and more!"

I just discovered Talenthouse . Here is their blog . This is a place to showcase and collaborate on all kinds of media projects. Trying it out...what do you think?

From La Jolla, CA... Fred Davis spoke at the 3rd Annual Cinegrid Workshop and I captured some pictures from the event.